What Is Boris Doing?

Whether the U.K. prime minister is pursuing negotiations or an electoral advantage, he’s headed for disaster

by Written by the Bloomberg Opinion editorial boardAug 16, 20192 minuti

When a government makes emergency plans to safeguard water supplies, stockpile vital medicines, manage food shortages, prepare for civil unrest, suspend the legislature, and exploit arcane procedures to stay in power, things aren’t going great. For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it’s evidently all part of the plan.